Combined cigarette and match package



Feb. 20, 1934-. E. s. K. FUNG COMBINED QIGARETTE AND MAT cH PACKAGE Filed June 13, 1933` 2 Sheets-'Sheet l lNveNToR ATTORNEY Feb. 20, 1934. E. S. K. FUNG COMBINED CIGARETTE AND MATCH PACKAGE 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed June 15. 1933 HWS; 5: /f f2? ATTOR N EY Patented Feb. 20, 1934 'r'rss PATENT OFFICE CQMBINED CIGARETTE AND MATCH PACKAGE Ernest S. K. Fung, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii 1 Claim.

The object of the invention is to provide a package construction so that cigarettes may be packaged in combination with matches of the paper variety, thus making available the necessary means for lighting the cigarettes when desired without the necessity for having to carry matches separately; to provide a package construction of the kind indicated which may be formed from a paper blank and readily folded into the shape it assumes in enclosing a quantity of cigarettes; and generally to provide a package construction which is of simple form and susceptible of cheap manufacture.

With this object in View, the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawings but to which ernbodiment the invention is not to be restricted. Continued use in practice may dictate certain changes or alterations and the right is claimed to make any which fall within the scope of the annexed claim.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a package constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a bottom plan View of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an elevational view showing the cover flap of the match section open.

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 but showing the intermediate flap of the match section open.

Figure 5 is a central vertical sectional View of the structure of Figure 1.

Figure 6 is a transverse sectional view of the structure of Figure 1.

Figure 7 is a plan View of the blank before folding.

The blank is cut from a single sheet scored on the lines 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16 to define the front and back walls 17 and 18, the bottom wall 19, the side walls 2o and 2l and the flap 22, the blank being slit on the lines 23, 24, 25 and 26 in addition to scoring to provide the side reinforcements 27, 28 and 29.

A tab 30 formed as a continuation of the back 18 and dened from the back by the score line 14 is designed to have attached thereto a strip of matches 31, of the paper Variety, secured preferably by means of staples 32.

Also formed as a continuation of the side Wall 21 and dened from the latter by the score line 16 is a tab 33 formed on one face with a zone of abrasive material, as indicated at 34.

The package is designed to enclose the cus- Serial No. 675,622

tomary number of cigarettes Wrapped in tinfoil or other moisture-proof material and in its enclosing positions, the blank is folded on the fold lines 19 and 11, so as to leave the section 19 of the blank as the bottom of the package, the section 17 becoming the front and the section i8 the back. rThe side reinforcements 27 and 23 are folded up into perpendicular positions with reference to the section 19 and the sections 20 and 21 down against the outer faces 55 of the sections 27 and 28 and preferably adhesively secured thereto. The tab 30 is folded down on the fold line 14 to bring the strip of matches against the outer face of the back 18, when the tab 33 is folded over on the fold line 70 16 and down against the outer face of the match carrying tab 3D to which it is adhesively secured. The section 29, having been folded on the fold line 10, is in a position to be placed against the outer face of the section 27 to which it is pref- 75 erably adhesively secured, when the section 20, by folding on the fold line 10, is brought against the outer face of the section 29 and adhesively secured thereto. This leaves the section 22 as a free flap to swing down over the strip of matches 31. The package is provided with an additional element formed to provide a section 35 of substantially the same area as the wall section 18 and having connected therewith on opposite sides by lines of perforation 36, the strips 37 and 38. A tab 39 is formed at one end of the section 35 and is defined by a fold line 40. Similarly a tapered tab 41, deiined by a fold line 42, is formed at the opposite end and itself is folded as indicated by the lines 43, 44 and 45. The tab 39 is adhesively secured to the wall 18 on the inner face of the latter and at the open end of the package and the strips 37 and 38 are adhesively secured against the outer faces of the sections 29 and 21 of the blank. The section 35 may then be folded down on the fold line 40 to lie on top of the flap 22, with the tapered flap portion in its reversely folded form, as shown particularly in Figures 3 and 4, inserted through the strip of matches and the wall 18.

The package, so far as the present invention is concerned, is open at the one end, the cigarettes contained therein being, of course, enclosed by the tinfoil wrapper in which they are carried. After breaking the necessary stamp, the tinfoil wrapper may be opened and cigarettes withdrawn from the package as desired, matches being used as desired by pulling out the flap 41, so that the nap which the section 35 provides and the flap 22 may be swung back. Then the strip of matches will be accessible and the matches may be singly broken from the strip and ignited by drawing them across the abrasive area 34.

Since the flap 35, when the package is initially manufactured, is connected with the strips 37 and 38, it is separated from these strips by severance along the perforated lines 36.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is:

A combined package cover and cigarette container comprising a blank scored to provide front, back, side and bottom walls, a tab foldwall.

ERNEST S. K. FUNG. 

